Avast still spying on us :-D

[RejZoR]

Sorry, but these claims are nonsense. avast! NEVER re-enables those settings by itself. I have data sharing disabled on all systems and they have been like that for several updates.

Settings are always respected unless there is some misconfiguration due to update. Which to this date never happened for data sharing settings.

There is also EULA which describes data collection and you can look for explanation from Vlk somewhere on this forum about data collection. or was it on Wilder, I don't know exactly. Look it up.

Bottom line, in current time of heavy cloud integrated protection systems, all antiviruses gather data one way or another. Btw, have you used Google today? Yeah, that...

I'll just quote myself. If it's a bug, that's not intentional behavior and you can't blame it on them like they are doing it intentionally. The bug which resets ALL settings to default doesn't reset data sharing specifically. Blaming it as intentional would be just stupid thing to do.

[REDACTED]

I only recently installed avast and hadn't even realized that it updated because it does this automatically. I just checked my privacy settings and they were changed, and I know for a fact that they were disabled when I installed Avast. It's annoying and a little disappointing, but whatever. Just wanted to post here to state that this isn't an isolated incident. Avast does apparently change Privacy settings, and it has happened with the most recent update regardless of what that changelog claims.

[Be Secure]

Sorry, but these claims are nonsense. avast! NEVER re-enables those settings by itself. I have data sharing disabled on all systems and they have been like that for several updates.

Settings are always respected unless there is some misconfiguration due to update. Which to this date never happened for data sharing settings.

There is also EULA which describes data collection and you can look for explanation from Vlk somewhere on this forum about data collection. or was it on Wilder, I don't know exactly. Look it up.

Bottom line, in current time of heavy cloud integrated protection systems, all antiviruses gather data one way or another. Btw, have you used Google today? Yeah, that...

I'll just quote myself. If it's a bug, that's not intentional behavior and you can't blame it on them like they are doing it intentionally. The bug which resets ALL settings to default doesn't reset data sharing specifically. Blaming it as intentional would be just stupid thing to do.

I am not blaming them at all,just point it out.

[Be Secure]

I only recently installed avast and hadn't even realized that it updated because it does this automatically. I just checked my privacy settings and they were changed, and I know for a fact that they were disabled when I installed Avast. It's annoying and a little disappointing, but whatever. Just wanted to post here to state that this isn't an isolated incident. Avast does apparently change Privacy settings, and it has happened with the most recent update regardless of what that changelog claims.

No.It is enabled by default you have to manually disable it.

[zenzor]

I only recently installed avast and hadn't even realized that it updated because it does this automatically. I just checked my privacy settings and they were changed, and I know for a fact that they were disabled when I installed Avast. It's annoying and a little disappointing, but whatever. Just wanted to post here to state that this isn't an isolated incident. Avast does apparently change Privacy settings, and it has happened with the most recent update regardless of what that changelog claims.

Some of my my settings (like "Enable Avast email signature" and "Antispam") which I've turned off are also always turned on again when AIS updates.

[bob3160]

I only recently installed avast and hadn't even realized that it updated because it does this automatically. I just checked my privacy settings and they were changed, and I know for a fact that they were disabled when I installed Avast. It's annoying and a little disappointing, but whatever. Just wanted to post here to state that this isn't an isolated incident. Avast does apparently change Privacy settings, and it has happened with the most recent update regardless of what that changelog claims.

Some of my my settings (like "Enable Avast email signature" and "Antispam") which I've turned off are also always turned on again when AIS updates.

That was a bug some version back. It's not supposed to be happening in the current version. (12.1.2272)